This list contains personalities of the city of Perleberg in Brandenburg. The list does not claim to be complete.
Honorary citizen
Surname
Born
Died
Awarded honorary citizenship
Profession / activity
Merchant Otto Mertens
March 20, 1858
longtime city councilor
Gottlieb von Haeseler
January 19, 1836 in Potsdam
October 25, 1919 in Harnekop
January 26, 1887
Commander of the 11 Perleberg Uhlan Regiment he formed
Karl Schabrod
October 19, 1900 in Perleberg
March 31, 1981 in Düsseldorf
October 16, 1961
communist politician
Mayor since 1649
Term of office
Surname
1649
Georg Krusemark and Johannes Konow
1650
Bernhard Straube and Clemens Konow
1651
Johannes Konow and Georg Krusemark
1652
Clemens Konow and Bernhard Straube
1653
Georg Krusemark and Johannes Konow
1654
Bernhard Straube and Clemens Konow
1655
Clemens Konow and Johannes Konow
1656
Georg Krusemark and Johannes Konow
1657
Clemens Konow and Mathias Hasse
1658
Johannes Konow and Georg Krusemark
1659
Mathias Hasse and Clemens Konow
1660
Georg Krusemark and Andreas Krusemark
1661
Clemens Konow and Georg Krusemark
1662
Andreas Krusemark and Georg Krusemark
1663
Mathias Hasse and Clemens Konow
1664
Andreas Krusemark
1665
Clemens Konow
1666
Mathias Hasse
1667
Andreas Krusemark
1668
Clemens Konow
1669
Mathias Hasse and Bernhard Straube
1670
Clemens Konow and Daniel Ratiche
1671
Bernhard Straube and Mathias Hasse
1672
Daniel Ratiche and Clemens Konow
1673
Mathias Hasse and Bernhard Straube
1674
Daniel Ratiche and Mathias Hasse
1675
Daniel Ratiche and Bernhard Straube
1676
Mathias Hasse and Bernhard Straube
1677
Daniel Ratiche and Mathias Hasse
1678
Bernhard Straube and Daniel Ratiche
Term of office
Surname
1679
Mathias Hasse and Bernhard Straube
1680
Daniel Ratiche and Mathias Hasse
1681
Bernhard Strabe and Daniel Ratiche
1682
Mathias Hasse and GEorg Krusemark
1683
Daniel Ratiche and Mathias Hasse
1684
Georg Krusemark and Daniel Ratiche
1685
Mathias Hasse and Georg Krusemark
1686
Daniel Ratiche and Mathias Hasse
1687
Georg Krusemark and Daniel Ratiche
1688
Mathias Hasse and Georg Krusemark
1689
Mathias Hasse and Georg Krusemark
1690
Georg Krusemark and Stephan Konow
1691
Georg Krusemark
1692
Georg Krusemark and Andreas Stappenbeck
1693
Andreas Stappenbeck and Georg Krusemark
1694
Johann Heinrich Tancke and Georg Krusemark
1697
Johann Konow
1710
Georg Christian Neumann
1714
Johann Konow
1715
Bernhard Stappenbeck
1717
Georg Konow
1719
Johann Michael ax
1727
Joachim Christian Dietrich Hindenburg
1728
Petrus Schultze
1730
Karl Heinrich Schultz
1733
Eusebius Christian Hichtel
1757
Hindenburg
1757
Hindenburg
1770
Samuel Ludwig Betich
1783-1788
Daniel Christoph Salpius
Term of office
Surname
1789-1795
Guticke and Senger
1796-1821
Johann Bernhard Stappenbeck
1821-1822
Johann Sigismund Schrötter
1823-1842
Friedrich Heinrich Eggebrecht
1843-1849
Cochius
1850-1851
Fineisen
1852-1854
temporary administration by Sitzmann
1854-1854
from Kopplow
1854-1866
Rhode
1866-1877
Reinefarth
1877-1884
Richard Berger
1885-1893
Hugo Kneisel
1893-1902
Dr. Hugo Kronsich
1902-1909
Felix Schoenermarck
1910-1919
Alexander Pohl
1919-1924
Erich Moll
1925-1937
Erich Mende
1937-1945
Dr. Wilhelm Handelmann
1945-1947
Rudolf Borsch
1947-1951
Emil Klein
1951-1952
Gerhard Eggert
1952-1966
Hans-Günther Grabow
1966-1973
Hans Scherke
1973-1989
Karl-Heinz Tesch
1989-1993
Dr. Friederike Fischer
1993-2004
Dietmar Zigan
2004-2007
Manfred Herzberg
2007-2015
Fred Fischer
since 2015
Annett Jura
Source: Council of the City of Perleberg (ed.): 750 years of Perleberg. Print shop SVZ Wittenberge, Perleberg 1989, p. 32ff.
sons and daughters of the town
Surname
Born
Died
Profession / activity
Joachim Tancke
December 9, 1557
November 17, 1609
Physician, poet, astronomer and rector of Leipzig University in 1593 and 1599
Joachim Meier
August 10, 1661
April 2, 1732
Baroque writer
Ernst Georg Sonnin
June 10, 1713
July 8, 1794
Engineer and architect in the age of enlightenment
Ludwig Wilhelm Neumann
July 7, 1762
November 30, 1847
Councilor of Justice and honorary citizen of the city of Berlin
Carl Ludwig Theodor Schlomka
August 13, 1821
November 22, 1894
Reich judge
Otto Schlomka
November 1, 1823
0 0 1884
Member of the Reichstag
Ernst Ehrenbaum
December 20, 1861
May 6, 1942
biologist
Traugott von Jagow
May 18, 1865
June 15, 1941
Administrative officer and politician
Walther von Jagow
August 19, 1867
March 27, 1928
Officer, most recently general of the cavalry
Max Zeisig
1867
1937
photographer
James Broh
November 9, 1867
0 0 1942
Lawyer, publicist and left-wing politician
Rudolf Bosselt
June 29, 1871
January 2, 1938
Sculptor, medalist and reform pedagogue
Anna of Palen
May 26, 1875
January 27, 1939
Silent movie star
Erich Zweigert
November 20, 1879
October 23, 1947
Administrative lawyer
Gustav Wölkerling
May 4, 1882
October 23, 1954
spy
Walter Graf von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt
July 13, 1887
May 9, 1943
General in World War II
Karl Mohns
September 18, 1887
August 5, 1939
pilot
Lotte Lehmann
February 27, 1888
August 26, 1976
German and American opera singer
Otto Kannengießer
August 19, 1893
October 9, 1958
Politician (NSDAP)
Hermann-Heinrich Behrend
August 25, 1898
June 19, 1987
Officer, most recently major general in World War II
Fritz-August Wilhelm Markmann
September 23, 1899
March 13, 1949
Lord Mayor of Magdeburg
Karl Schabrod
October 19, 1900
March 31, 1981
communist politician, member of the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia
Alfred Burgemeister
July 22, 1906
April 23, 1970
CDU politician, member of the Bundestag
Eleonore Dörner
November 20, 1912
June 8, 1997
Germanist and writer
Paul Lüth
June 20, 1921
August 6, 1986
Doctor and publicist
Hans-Joachim art
July 5, 1929
February 7, 2007
Art historian
Hubert Fichte
March 21, 1935
March 8, 1986
writer
Armin Hiller
December 22, 1938
diplomat
Jens Witte
February 11, 1941
June 12, 2003
Surgeon in Augsburg, President of the BDC
Rosemarie Ambé
February 7, 1941
June 16, 2014
Pop singer and television presenter
Jürgen Borchert
May 25, 1941
March 1, 2000
Columnist on topics from the Prignitz and Mecklenburgs
Werner Lehfeldt
May 22, 1943
Slavist
Dörte von Westernhagen
August 5, 1943
Writer
Peter Wellmann
August 26, 1943
May 29, 2014
Politician (SPD)
Karsten Witte
June 8, 1944
October 23, 1995
Film scholar
Christian Spiering
0 0 1948
physicist
Norbert Thiede
April 3, 1949
Discus thrower, Olympian 1976
Christina Voss
July 7, 1952
Handball player
Thomas Domres
4th July 1970
Politician (PDS, Die Linke)
Frank Rieger
6th December 1971
Hacker, non-fiction author, technology journalist, internet activist and one of the spokesmen for the Chaos Computer Club (CCC)
Tino Schopf
October 29, 1974
Politician (SPD)
Gordon Hoffmann
December 31, 1978
Politician (CDU)
Benjamin Mielke
February 6, 1981
Bobsledder
Fait-Florian Banser
February 20, 1982
Soccer player
Stefanie Thurmann
March 25, 1982
Marksman
Robert Bläsing
November 27, 1982
Politician (FDP)
Stefan Uhmann
April 28, 1986
Volleyball and beach volleyball players
People whose work is connected to Perleberg
Surname
Born
Died
Profession / activity
Gottfried Arnold
September 5, 1666
May 30, 1714
Pastor in Perleberg, author of the "Unparty Church and Heretic History" (1699/1700)
Benjamin Bathurst
March 14, 1784
disappeared November 25, 1809
British diplomat who disappeared in Perleberg on November 25, 1809 in a way that has not yet been clarified
August Heinrich Höpfner
August 24, 1830
March 12, 1901
Senior teacher in Perleberg and city poet
Paul Albert Glaeser-Wilken
August 3, 1874
4th August 1942
Actor and director, gave language and speaking lessons in Perleberg from 1939 until the end of his life; Grave site in Groß Buchholz .
Lisbeth Glaeser-Wilken
April 1, 1887
April 11, 1977
Actress and teacher, wife of the actor Paul Albert Glaeser-Wilken , lived in Groß Buchholz from 1939–1953/54 and gave piano lessons in Perleberg at that time
Hermann Henneberg
August 31, 1904
April 1, 1984
Sports doctor and namesake of a running group
Eva-Maria Hagen
October 19, 1934
came to Perleberg with her family after the Second World War and went to school here for a few years
Angela Merkel
17th July 1954
Federal Chancellor, moved with her family to the village of Quitzow shortly after her birth , where her father took up a position as pastor
Jürgen Rogge
born 1940
Psychiatrist and writer doctor , worked in his own branch from 1991 to 2005
literature
Christine Sernau: Profiles from the Prignitz district. Citizens of Our Time, Vol. 1, Schwerin 2002, ISBN 3-932746-34-1 .
Christine Sernau: Profiles from the Prignitz district. Citizens of our time, Vol. 2, Schwerin 2003, ISBN 3-932746-42-2 .
Web links
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